Chieko and the Grand Coulee, Part lll

   

 

 

Friday, December 19

 

The freezing fog from the day before continued to hang heavy as the day began at Grand Coulee...

 

 

Breakfast at Flo's Cafe...

     

 

 

 

We drove north through the little town of Grand Coulee and after nary a mile we came upon the fog shrouded Grand Coulee Dam... the largest concrete structure in the United States...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam

 

       

 

       

 

 

Very cold... and very few people about...

 

On the west side of the dam, the little town of Grand Coulee's main residential street runs amazingly close to the massive dam. When folks in the houses pictured below look out their back door they see the Columbia River just a few feet away and the Grand Coulee Dam little more than a good stone's throw away...

 

       

 

   

 

 

 

The bridge over the River Columbia... between the towns of Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam. The town of Coulee Dam is part of the Colville Indian Reservation...

 

       

 

     

 

On the Colville Indian Reservation side of the Columbia River...

 

 

The Colville Confederated Tribal Museum...

 

       

 

     

 

This scene of "cowboy coffee" is by Quincy Snow, mayor of Coulee Dam. I spotted the print hanging in the Red Door Gift Shop at Coulee Dam...

 

 

Back to the Roosevelt Lake side of the great dam. The freezing fog frosted the trees...

 

       

 

   

 

 

 

Back down the Grand Coulee Canyon. This is the country that we drove through the evening before in darkness and icy fog. We had suspected that we were crossing a splendid landscape and this day's drive back down the canyon confirmed that, ten fold...

 

     

 

 

Steamboat Rock... within the Grand Coulee Canyon...

 

 

We proceeded south through the canyon...

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

Dry Falls... an area that I've spotted from 30,000 feet several times on cross-country flights...

 

     

 

 

Somewhere between Dry Falls and Ephrata...